Daniel Velez (born December 9, 1983) is a Puerto Rican retired swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He represented his nation Puerto Rico at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of three medals (two golds and one bronze) at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Netanya, Israel.[2][3]
Five months before the Games, at an Olympic qualifying event, he threw down a 100-metre lifetime best of 1:03.63 to slip past the FINA B-cut (1:03.72) by almost a tenth of a second (0.1) at the All-American Championships in Austin, Texas, United States.[5][6]
2008 Olympic trials
At the Olympic preliminary heats in September, 2008, Beijing, Velez slipped to the front from lane one to touch the wall first in heat three with a remarkable Puerto Rican record in 1:01.80, slashing 1.83 seconds off his own entry standard and beating India's Sandeep Sejwal, who finished behind him, in a close finish by only a small fraction of a second.[7]
2008 Olympics
Velez competed for the Puerto Rican squad in the men's 100 m breaststroke at the August, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4] Despite his quality performance for a national competitor, in the intense international competition of the Olympics, he ended his Olympic campaign with a thirty-third place overall finish with his time of 1:01.80 and did not advance to the semifinals.[8][9]
Velez won a bronze medal in both the 50 and 100-meter breaststroke at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.[10]
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